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David Hartsough: The Power of Loving Your Enemy

The long­time peace activist is inter­viewed on QuakerSpeak:

I’ve cho­sen non­vi­o­lence and non­vi­o­lent action as a means of social change part­ly because I believe that we’re all God’s chil­dren. We’re all broth­ers and sis­ters, and an injury to any per­son is an injury to me. We’re all relat­ed. So it’s moral­ly right and it’s try­ing to walk our talk that love is not just some­thing to talk about with your lit­tle fam­i­ly — the world is our family. 

David’s all over the Friends Jour­nal web­sites right week. Last week the mag­a­zine pub­lished his account of need­ing emer­gency heart surgery while on a friend­ship vis­it in Iran. True to form, he made it a teach­able moment by using it to explain how Amer­i­can sanc­tions hurt every­day Ira­ni­ans (I’m hap­py to report every­thing turned out okay). His most recent book is Wag­ing Peace; FJ’s for­mer senior edi­tor Bob Dock­horn reviewed it in 2015.

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David Hart­sough: The Pow­er of Lov­ing Your Ene­my was last mod­i­fied: March 21st, 2019 by Martin Kelley

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Posted March 21st, 2019 , in Quaker. Tagged account, action, American, Bob Dockhorn, friendship, friendsjournal, heart, last, means, peace, quakerspeak, talk, week

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